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What you need: Screenotate for Windows

Time required: 20 minutes

Pressing PrtSc on your keyboard copies an image of your screen to your clipboard. From there, you can paste it into documents and share it with friends. But that’s about it. If you want to save a screenful of text to keep for future reference, you’ll end up with an image which might be difficult to find later. While you could use a long, descriptive file name to make searches easier, wouldn’t it be better if

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